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geden | 1 year ago

Have used most browsers since 1993. As an end user Safari is not comparable to how IE was.

Safari has been my daily driver for a decade. Clean, integrated well into MacOS. Just works. I only have to crack out Chrome for the odd awkward website that’s usually terrible in all sorts if other ways, apart from poor testing. Like a bad bank.

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mark_l_watson|1 year ago

This is my experience also. I do use Chrome for one use case: I run all Google properties on Chrome, and the rest of the web on Safari.

I enjoy Google products, but I am also careful to tune my Google privacy, etc. settings. Keeping the use of all Google properties on Chrome keeps things clear, for an old man like myself. BTW, I seldom use Google search, but everything else except for GMail I pay for: GCP, YouTube Plus, Gemini (love the large context size, and almost free API use), etc.

Off topic, but almost everything of value I use on the web is something I pay for. Adding in buying books to read, user experience is better than reading or using random junk on the web.

tucnak|1 year ago

Safari is great if your idea of a browser is from 2010's. Safari is not really on top of modern Web standards which is a shame because it really does have clean UI, albeit not too many options for power-users. No extension ecosystem, etc. They were right to question _some_ standards, but other than that they're simply behind. There's a reason Chromium moved on from WebKit, and many misgivings of Safari could probably be traced back to it being hard to develop / maintain.